I would like to suggest google "Micheal Moore; why Romney will win in November" For those that don't know, Mr. Moore is very very liberal.

My suggestions to voters1) Educate YOURSELF by turning off Fox news and MSNBC and turn on CSPAN. Ignore all the Romney and Obama Commercials, 90% is spin on both sides.2) Read or at least skim the health care reform bill, the latest one, the one that doesn't reform health care but reforms health insurance.3) Learn what an Actuary is and what they think will happen to our health care system between 2014 and 2020.4) Learn what happens when you tax the upper middle class (small business owners) more than the middle class.5) Learn what the very wealthy pay in taxes and compare it to what the average person pays. Not in percentages but in dollars.6) Learn who pays taxes and who doesn't pay any federal tax.7) Learn about where most of our goods come from. (Oil, food, clothing, ect..) and how these imports are taxed. Pay attention to China and their relationship with North Korea.8) Learn how the national debt works and who we owe this money to. As of today, It's around $16 trillion or $50,000 per taxpayer.

I was fooled once but I wont allow someone to fool me again. I'm educating myself.

FAR Left.. FAR right.. Does anyone see that major changes are need to move in a direction that will cut the debt, control spending, and fulfill the mandates we the people send these people into offfice to do. In the end, we need a new tax structure, a more realistic health care system, better spending controls for military and ...oh my god some controls on entitlements. BIG GOVERMENT is not the answer and both party LOVE BIG GOVERMENT. I WANT TO SEE A FINANCIAL CONSERVITIVE AND SOCAILLY LIBERTARIAN LEADER.

That's what we need, but that's not what sells to our dumbshit voters. Between being economically naive and sorely lacking in critical thinking skills, the majority of voters are only useful for cancelling each other's votes. There's no real incentive for the parties to change their winning strategies. It's easier for them to play blame games.My latest story is too hot to publish. My most recent story before that is Even Stranger In Lust

I know I'm a Brit and probably have no business posting on American politics, but Romney seems as much use as a marzipan dildo.

A candidate can be more useful than our current president by simply not demonizing business and bashing the profit motive when unemployment is high and investor confidence is low. My latest story is too hot to publish. My most recent story before that is Even Stranger In Lust

That's what we need, but that's not what sells to our dumbshit voters. Between being economically naive and sorely lacking in critical thinking skills, the majority of voters are only useful for cancelling each other's votes. There's no real incentive for the parties to change their winning strategies. It's easier for them to play blame games.

I didn't read all of the posts although I should have. My thoughts are that there is really not a good choice. Maybe if Ross Perot were 20 years younger and had a running mate that still had his whits? I don't know? My gut feeling is the worst is yet to come for most of us?

First off, all this talk about the Reps being full of chicanery and flip flopping and pandering, manipulative, appealing to Americans' fears, blah blah blah... is silly. By default it's saying that the Dems don't do the same things. BOTH sides do that. To suggest that one side has clean(er) political hands is naive. Just as the Reps use fear to tell their base that Liberals want to take all their money and guns and turn the country into a total nanny state. The Dems use fear to tell their base that conservatives are going to rape you and force you to have a baby you'd rather abort, take away your birth control, and let the rich off live off the sweat of the real working middle class. The average person on either side of the political spectrum believes the "other" side is dirty.

The fact of the matter is, the U.S. is split nearly 50/50 in the political sense. On each side, half are fully and totally left or right and nothing will ever convince them to change sides. But the other half of each group is probably closer to the middle and can be moved to either side depending on the election and issues at hand and can exist happily either way. But no matter who wins, a good quarter the country is going to feel left out and disenfranchised and feel they have no voice while living in a society that is the 180degree opposite of how life and governement should be, in their minds.

The problem with labeling all republican/conservative voters as racist, bigoted, stupid, white male, civil rights denying people is problematic for the Dems. First of all it invalidates the entire political opinion of millions of people. It's easier to say their opinions are invalid because of racism or bigotry, thus unworthy of debate or discussion than it is to face those issues head on and see that possibly there is some credibility to their voice on other matters, such as economic and fiscal responsibilities. Most republicans I know vote republican 90% on matters of fiscal and economy than they do social issues. Second of all, for a Republican to "switch" sides to vote Democrat he has to look himself in the mirror and decide that the views of the Republican party are wrong. Thus agreeing that Reps are racist, bigoted, stupid, white, male, civil rights denying people... which means that he himself is all those things. People do not and are not going to view themselves that way, they'll dig in the heels even deeper. Very few will look in the mirror and actually see a racist or bigoted person, and most AREN'T racist and bigoted. It is impossible to sway a person's thought process after labeling him, he won't hear anything after whatever term you use to describe him. Contrary to popular belief, there are black, hispanic, asian, homosexual, and female Republican/conservatives.

I agree and disagree with parts of what MNP said. Depending on which side of the aisle you sit, both parties have become masters of taking away personal freedoms. He is right that Americans still believe that the news anchors are telling us the truth. The fact that the term "mainstream media" even exists proves that there is little objective and unbiased reporting. Anyone outside of the "mainstream" is viewed with skepticism and lack of credibility. It always baffles me the way FoxNews watchers bash msnbc/cnn for being in the pocket of democrats while ignoring the obvious right-leaning stances on their preferred news source. And vice versa.

Politics has become more like X-Factor. That's John McCain's fault for throwing Sarah Palin on the stage and parading her around like Miss America. Both sides are throwing up their heavyweights at conventions, preaching to the choir while bashing the other side. The two party system is broken. No matter who wins, millions of Americans will feel unimportant. Neither candidate is very appealing to me. Either one in office will try to mold our country to fit their vision of it. Doing only what is best for them and their party instead of doing what is right for us as a whole, even if parts of that are contrary to their own personal beliefs.

Pres. W. Bush took a "you're with us or you're against us" approach to the world as a whole and in part with his politics. Pres. Obama has a similar mindset. Both sides have jumped all over that ideal to try to force feed their ways onto the opposition instead of working together to find ways to coexist and compromise and keep our country somewhere in the middle. This "all or nothing" approach is going to doom us, one way or the other.

First off, all this talk about the Reps being full of chicanery and flip flopping and pandering, manipulative, appealing to Americans' fears, blah blah blah... is silly. By default it's saying that the Dems don't do the same things. BOTH sides do that. To suggest that one side has clean(er) political hands is naive.

No, both sides are not the same, that is a trope used by lazy people to avoid thinking. Obama is President and has therefore had to pass three budgets and propose a fourth. We have a VERY good idea what he is going to do and which difficult choices he is prepared to take.

Hint: you cannot cut taxes, increase spending and balance the budget, it does not work. Didn't work for Ronnie, didn't work for either Bush and won't work if Romney tries it. The unfunded Bush tax cut is the reason the surplus left by Clinton turned into a deficit.

Romney on the other hand is promising to give himself a huge tax cut (he thinks 13% too much it appears) and increase military spending and somehow balance the budget. Thing is that his numbers simply don't work unless the 'tax loopholes' he is talking about eliminating are mortgage interest relief and the charitable deduction. There just aren't enough tax breaks to fund his tax cuts and balance the budget, let alone pay for the spending increases he proposes.

Given that the US has just ended one war and should be planning to leave Afghanistan soon, military spending should be decreasing, not increasing. Unless that is Romney plans to start another war.

Romney has been running for President longer than Obama has been President yet he does not have a detailed plan on any part of his program. He is going to get schooled in the debates and lose quite badly.

Now I actually have some personal experience of a Romney company, Bain Consulting which he was CEO of at the time. They consulted us all right, 'consult' being a combination of con and insult. The advice we got was total ass-lickery that made no sense at all but made the execs feel good till they lost their jobs a few years later for following the stupid Bain advice. They also gave us some processes that were useless and they charged several millions for the privilege.

Romney was very good at consulting because he could make money telling people what they wanted to hear all the time. It was lousy advice but very profitable for Romney. I think a Romney presidency would go the same way.

I predict it swings largely on the happenings in the first presidential debate, but if I had to predict now, I'd say Romney wins on the strength of Florida, and again that state's results will be clouded by controversy.

Romney has only two ways of winning. He has to win Ohio and most of the swing states or if he loses Ohio he has to win every one of the swing states.

They have already pulled their ads from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Obama is currently polling ahead in all the swing states except NC and has been doing so since May. They are running scared (as they should) but it is very hard to see how Romney could win given his current strategy.

The GOP is definitely attempting voter suppression tactics but they have already backfired a few times. They have already lost the court cases in Ohio and Texas and look set to lose most of the others. In the meantime Dems have been signing up voters for postal ballots so that they can't be denied the vote because of eight hour queues like Ken Blackwell engineered in 2004.

Please everyone, don`t hope. If you are not registered to vote, go get it done. If you have time, get to work for the campaign as a volunteer. If you can afford it, contribute even just $10. Make sure that your friends, family and colleagues are registered and vote. That is what you can do. Participate to the extent that you can.

Just so you know, I am registering to vote this year. I have my vote and I'm entitled to my hopes, it lifts my spirits.

Byron, there are actually more combinations that give Romney the win than there are for Obama. Obama is still enjoying the convention bounce but we all know bounces go up and then usually go back down. IF you look historically, Carter led Reagan by 4% at this time in the campaign, and Dukakis led Bush 41 by 17% and we know how those leads turned out.

Voter suppression? How exactly is requiring a person to actually be a citizen to be able to vote suppression unless you are in favor of non-citizens voting? Currently in places like Texas, you can register to vote and actually vote without having to prove you are a citizen. In fact it is illegal here for them to ask for any form of ID at all. When you have counties where there are consistently more votes than citizens there is obviously something wrong. On the other hand, please explain why the Obama has not seen that the Defense Department has enacted the law he signed into law to enable the military to vote. Last election only something like 17% of the military was allowed to vote because they could not get ballots in time or could not get them back in within the time limits. BY law, there were to be offices open on military bases, foreign and domestic, to improve the voting process but that has not been done by the federal government. We even have the Justice Department suing several states who are trying to make considerations to allow our service men and women to vote.

If you need a picture ID to buy cigarettes, buy liquor, board an airplane, and thousands of other things, how does it supress votes to require one to vote? Especially when most attempts have included details such as free ID cards, mobile units that will come to your home if you want to get one, and other such provisions for those who claim it is a hardship to get an ID.

There's no substantial evidence of voter fraud of any kind, so why is it all the sudden an issue now? Because they're in danger of losing a national election, and want to keep poor people from voting. It's logical on Republicans' parts, and it's politics as usual, but let's call it what it is, not some bullshit faux-magnanimous quest for authentic voting results.

No, both sides are not the same, that is a trope used by lazy people to avoid thinking. Obama is President and has therefore had to pass three budgets and propose a fourth. We have a VERY good idea what he is going to do and which difficult choices he is prepared to take.

Hint: you cannot cut taxes, increase spending and balance the budget, it does not work. Didn't work for Ronnie, didn't work for either Bush and won't work if Romney tries it. The unfunded Bush tax cut is the reason the surplus left by Clinton turned into a deficit.

Romney on the other hand is promising to give himself a huge tax cut (he thinks 13% too much it appears) and increase military spending and somehow balance the budget. Thing is that his numbers simply don't work unless the 'tax loopholes' he is talking about eliminating are mortgage interest relief and the charitable deduction. There just aren't enough tax breaks to fund his tax cuts and balance the budget, let alone pay for the spending increases he proposes.

Given that the US has just ended one war and should be planning to leave Afghanistan soon, military spending should be decreasing, not increasing. Unless that is Romney plans to start another war.

Romney has been running for President longer than Obama has been President yet he does not have a detailed plan on any part of his program. He is going to get schooled in the debates and lose quite badly.

Now I actually have some personal experience of a Romney company, Bain Consulting which he was CEO of at the time. They consulted us all right, 'consult' being a combination of con and insult. The advice we got was total ass-lickery that made no sense at all but made the execs feel good till they lost their jobs a few years later for following the stupid Bain advice. They also gave us some processes that were useless and they charged several millions for the privilege.

Romney was very good at consulting because he could make money telling people what they wanted to hear all the time. It was lousy advice but very profitable for Romney. I think a Romney presidency would go the same way.

All the things you say about platforms and ideals may be true. But still, both sides are prone to lying and trickery. To suggest that one side is playing clean and fair while the other side is pure dirty and evil is naive. BOTH sides are dirty and evil. It's not laziness. I don't believe all Dems are altruistic worldly do-gooders while all Republicans are evil minding capitalist pigs.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates

A lot of Americans I know are sick and tired of that Muslim Socialist from Kenya and his hatred of fetuses and small business owners. So yes, I think Romney's election is very possible!

I know, right? I mean, Obama can say what he wants to say, but how often can he get away with burning effigies of unborn children, laughing as he robs good and decent wealthy people of their hard earned capital over the sobbing protests of their families, and, worst of all, suggest that birth control should be covered under insurance plans that already cover it(!) before 'we, the people' are compelled to elect a good and decent steward of all that (according to zombie traditionalists) is simple, good, and decent?

The mad reign of the worst ruler since Pol Pot must end now. Unless you want death panels! Then don't say we didn't warn you. Grover Norquist and Michelle Bachmann await your sanity's return.

Hint: you cannot cut taxes, increase spending and balance the budget, it does not work.

When investor confidence is as badly damaged as Obama has made it, you cannot raise taxes, increase spending, balance the budget or improve the economy. If Obama gets another four years, two more Congresses, either Republican or Democrat will happily keep spending. Nothing will be done to reduce the debt. It will become much bigger and a much greater percentage of the GDP. This boom of the economic cycle that Obama has flattened will be over and the next president will have that much more difficulty taking us through the next trough. More damage will be done to the economic opportunities of the poorest members of the society and they will emerge more dependent on government and more firmly in the pockets of their Democrat massas.

And all because so many people believe that neither the greed they feel for the feeling they get when they act sanctimoniously nor the greed they feel for the perceived surplus of others' money is greed.

Did this fucking crook ever find out what caused the collapse of one of the most powerful economies during his 8 years in office? No. His solution was to push this fiasco (like those two wars) off on the next poor bastard to take the White House.

And you people expect 8 years of thievery and malfeasance to be fixed in 4 years time.

A lot of Americans I know are sick and tired of that Muslim Socialist from Kenya and his hatred of fetuses and small business owners. So yes, I think Romney's election is very possible!

this is sarcasm, right? cause i really can't take you seriously when you say stuff like this. it's just all sorts of wrong, factually, for starters. hatred of fetuses... yeah... *puts on best Charlton Heston voice* Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty fetus! Live, love, laugh.

this is sarcasm, right? cause i really can't take you seriously when you say stuff like this. it's just all sorts of wrong, factually, for starters. hatred of fetuses... yeah... *puts on best Charlton Heston voice* Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty fetus!

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